Maxine Berg FBA is Professor of History, University of Warwick, where she has taught since 1978. She has published several monographs over her career, including The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848; The Age of Manufactures (1985 and new edition 1994), A Woman in History: Eileen Power 1889-1940 (1994), and Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005), and has edited many volumes. She has researched over the fields of economic history, women’s history, the history of luxury and material culture, global history, and most recently on aspects of indigenous First Nations history and the history of slavery. She was a founder director of the Warwick Eighteenth Century Centre 1998-2007, and ran The Luxury Project (1998-2002) there. She was the founder director of the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick in 2007-11, and edited Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (Oxford University Press, 2013).
English AbstractPDF Susanna Burghartz’s recent research on global frameworks, connections and early modern material culture has focussed in part on visual culture, images and the new methodologies brought by digitisation projects. Among these are the narratives and engravings of the New World explored during the sixteenth century by Theodor de Bry.1 This has stimulated me […]